diff --git a/0001-Fix-HDF5-version-check.patch b/0001-Fix-HDF5-version-check.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..90a74e6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-Fix-HDF5-version-check.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+diff --git a/config/cmake_files/medMacros.cmake b/config/cmake_files/medMacros.cmake
+index 992103ee575a..e71f8d0b93ba 100644
+--- a/config/cmake_files/medMacros.cmake
++++ b/config/cmake_files/medMacros.cmake
+@@ -444,15 +444,6 @@ MACRO(MED_FIND_HDF5)
+     
+     FIND_PACKAGE(MedfileHDF5 REQUIRED)
+ 
+-    ##
+-    ## Requires 1.12.x version
+-    ##
+-    IF (NOT HDF_VERSION_MAJOR_REF EQUAL 1 OR NOT HDF_VERSION_MINOR_REF EQUAL 12 OR NOT HDF_VERSION_RELEASE_REF GREATER 0)
+-        MESSAGE(FATAL_ERROR "HDF5 version is ${HDF_VERSION_REF}. Only versions >= 1.12.1 are supported.")
+-    ENDIF()
+-    ##
+-    ##
+-
+     ADD_DEFINITIONS(-DH5_USE_16_API -DH5Oget_info_by_name_vers=1 -DH5O_info_t_vers=1)  
+     IF(WIN32 AND MEDFILE_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
+       ADD_DEFINITIONS(-D_HDF5USEDLL_ -DH5_BUILT_AS_DYNAMIC_LIB=1)   
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
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index 00000000..be7c0633
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+# Maintainer: Yao Zi <me@ziyao.cc>
+
+# Originally this is distributed on https://www.salome-platform.org/, but
+# upstream has disappeared.
+# However, at least FreeCAD still depends on it. Currently it's built from a
+# fork.
+
+pkgname=(med med-doc)
+pkgver=5.0.0
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc='Library for exchanging multi-physics simulation data'
+url='https://github.com/chennes/med'
+arch=(x86_64 aarch64 riscv64 loongarch64)
+license=(LGPL-3.0-or-later GPL-3.0-or-later)
+depends=(musl llvm-libs hdf5)
+makedepends=(cmake flang doxygen)
+provides=(libmed.so libmedC.so libmedfwrap.so libmedimport.so)
+# 0001: Should be upstreamed (who's the upstream now?), allow HDF5 2.x to be
+#	used
+source=("https://github.com/chennes/med/archive/refs/tags/v$pkgver.tar.gz"
+	0001-Fix-HDF5-version-check.patch)
+sha256sums=('8701f142087b87e8b74958fd0432498eadf28011b20ad05cf56bf911be081888'
+            'e6f2a160290cd433bac772c492e1f15febe824842da01d4ba547d3422852152c')
+
+prepare() {
+	_patch_ "$pkgname-$pkgver"
+}
+
+build() {
+	# Enable Python binding if used somewhere. Note the binding fails to
+	# build with Swig 14.
+	cmake -S "$pkgname-$pkgver" -B build \
+		-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo	\
+		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr		\
+		-DMEDFILE_BUILD_TESTS=ON		\
+		-DMEDFILE_BUILD_STATIC_LIBS=OFF		\
+		-DMEDFILE_BUILD_DOC=ON			\
+		-DMEDFILE_BUILD_PYTHON=OFF
+
+	cmake --build build
+	DESTDIR="$srcdir/tmpinstall" cmake --install build
+
+	cd tmpinstall
+	rm -r usr/bin/test{c,f}		# Remove tests
+	_pick_ med-doc usr/share/doc
+}
+
+check() {
+	ctest --test-dir build
+}
+
+package_med() {
+	mv "$srcdir/tmpinstall"/* "$pkgdir"
+}
+
+package_med-doc() {
+	depends=()
+	pkgdesc+=" (Documentation)"
+	options+=(!strip)
+
+	mv "$srcdir/pkgs/med-doc/usr" "$pkgdir"
+}